Monday, December 8, 2008
El Rancho RV Park, Albuquerque, NM: Nov 1-30
This is the same place we stayed in May, located on the edge of Albuquerque's "War Zone". The park is so conveniently located and reasonably priced that it will be difficult finding a better place to stay, especially since all the nicer mobile home parks we talked to do not allow pets. Here again we did not do much sightseeing (by "much" we mean "any"). We spent most of our time visiting Gayle, playing bridge, line-dancing, or doing chores. We had the most delightful Thanksgiving dinner, prepared, for the most part, by Bob & Paula (Doug's brother & sister-in-law). Bob brined the turkey, which made the white meat not only extremely moist, but quite flavorful. Doug was embarrassed to say it was even better than his mom's. Erin & Bryan (Doug's daughter & son-in-law) drove all the way from L.A. (in one day!) and Erin's mom drove down from Denver, so it was quite a nice family gathering, and a good time was had by all, if we do say so. Bob also made the most wonderful stuffing we ever tasted. Thanks to Bob for all his hard work!We always get horrendous gas mileage in Albuquerque. This is probably due to the fact that stop-lights do not seem to be synchronized in any way. This makes a certain amount of sense, since no one drives the speed limit (except us) -- they either go 5 mph under or 40 mph over, so timing the lights would be a complete waste of effort.
It was especially hard leaving, since we will probably not be back with our trailer for a year, much to Gayle's distress (and ours!). We did agree to drive back from Carlsbad for Christmas (280 miles each way -- certainly not the marathon drives faced by Erin or her mom for Thanksgiving) which seemed to cheer Gayle up somewhat.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 9:59 PM 
